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Originally Posted by highthief
I doubt that has been a factor for the last couple hundred years of the industrial revolution. How smart does one have to be to do factory work? (No disrespect to anyone who does it). You arguably have to be a smarter cookie to hunt or farm your own food than to insert bolt A into widget B a thousand times a day.
Arguably, it may become important in the techology age, but I work with a lot of techies - there's precious few I'd call "smart".
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thats true, humans havent been in modern civilization for very long.
I would think that in a nation like the US over a long period of time, the smart should get smarter, and the dumb would get dumber.
and I think that farming and hunting is a different type of "smarts" than those needed to write windows XP, or perform any of the scientific/engineering related stuffs that allows society to advance.